Top 100 Quotes About Refuse
#1. If I'm told I have to marry same sex couples I will refuse.
Todd Starnes
#2. There's a cultural expectation that everyone will be immunized, in part to protect the entire population. When people refuse that expectation, they're indulging in a certain kind of political or social immunity.
Eula Biss
#3. From the paths of blood (and such is the history of nations) I cannot refuse to turn aside to gather some flowers of science or virtue.
Edward Gibbon
#4. I can and will improve the world.
I will smile, show kindness, and be grateful.
I refuse to be unhappy.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#5. Even though it is a Great Right to Vote :
I refuse to participate on the elections :
Petra Hermans
Religion of Blue Circle
September 22, 2016
Petra Hermans
#6. The karmic cycle, when someone screws up really bad and hurts you. Our first instinct is to hurt back, or refuse to forgive.
Jennifer Probst
#7. Refuse any image that could have a rational meaning or any memory or culture
Luis Bunuel
#8. Refuse to let your circumstances make you bitter. Do what you must to make them better.
Nicole Kidman
#10. The Scripture stories do not, like Homer's, court our favor, they do not flatter us that they may please us and enchant us - they seek to subject us, and if we refuse to be subjected we are rebels.
Erich Auerbach
#11. In a culture of diversity, one group is likely not "just like everyone else." To deny that we have different needs, concerns, thought processes, worldview, is to refuse to look at the reason we are supposedly an identifiable community.
Anthony D. Ravenscroft
#12. Th' dead ar-re always pop'lar. I knowed a society wanst to vote a monyment to a man an' refuse to help his fam'ly, all in wan night.
Finley Peter Dunne
#13. If I was a braver man, I'd leave things the way they are, but I can't. You asked me why I'm a coward because I refuse to be without you. I cannot fathom any kind of a happy existence if you're not in it.
Colleen Houck
#14. "It's not just about Jen," he said. "It's about the entire romantic system. Ninety-nine percent of men are in love with the top one percent of women. And yet they often refuse to date us. It's a complete injustice.
Simon Rich
#15. Bottom line: Refuse to accept negative ideas about what you can't accomplish or what's impossible. Don't even talk to negative people while your dreams are still in the fragile incubation stage!
Doreen Virtue
#16. I own a '66 Jaguar. That's the guitar I polish, and baby - I refuse to let anyone touch it when I jump into the crowd.
Kurt Cobain
#17. Mothers, tell your children: be quick, you must be strong. Life is full of wonder, love is never wrong. Remember how they taught you, how much of it was fear. Refuse to hand it down - the legacy stops here.
Melissa Etheridge
#18. God has prescribed the remedy for the spiritual sickness of the human race. The solution is personal faith and commitment to Jesus Christ ... if we deliberately refuse it, we must suffer the horrible consequences.
Billy Graham
#19. The passions refuse to be organized on a basis of their own; hostile to personal freedom and one another, they rush precipitately into anarchy and mob rule.
Amos Bronson Alcott
#20. It is not the same thing if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre or if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre, Nobel Prize winner. A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution, even if it takes place in the most honorable form.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#21. If anyone asks you for something that you believe would be injurious to him, refuse, but in such a manner as not to lose his good-will.
Ignatius Of Loyola
#22. No matter how often I tell people I'm thirty-nine some of them refuse to believe I'm that old.
Jack Benny
#23. I hate it hen people I love refuse to speak to me.
Chris Lynch
#24. Refuse to compromise what you know to be right for anyone or anything.
Brian Tracy
#25. Those who refuse to look at or give expression to the dark side of life are in denial-fear preventing passage through the door of growth, truth and, ultimately, wisdom.
Laurence Overmire
#26. And what of the dead? They lie without shoes
in the stone boats. They are more like stone
than the sea would be if it stopped. They refuse
to be blessed, throat, eye and knucklebone.
Anne Sexton
#27. And I refuse to be governed by fear. The life stretching before me is that of a queen. It's a life I chose. Fought for, even. I cannot - will not - squander it on dread.
Rae Carson
#28. People may refuse our love or reject our message, but they are defenseless against our prayers.
Rick Warren
#29. Could you achieve the possible without trying? Could you achieve the impossible if you refuse to stop trying?
Ron Kaufman
#30. It may be infinitely worse to refuse to forgive than to murder, because
George MacDonald
#31. I refuse to think of them as chin hairs. I think of them as stray eyebrows.
Janette Barber
#32. The biggest fear a corporate government has is that the masses will refuse to work.
Steven Magee
#33. It is kindness immediately to refuse what you intend to deny.
Publilius Syrus
#34. You fell down? Get up! You fell down again? Get up again? You keep falling down? Keep getting up! Refuse the direction towards the ground! Up and forward, that is the direction!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#35. Our lives are shaped by those who love us as well as those who refuse to love us ...
Karl A. Menninger
#36. I sometimes think that the only things really worth talking about are the things people absolutely refuse to discuss.
Michel Faber
#37. Nightmares are for people who refuse to listen to their hearts. People who have lost their way, who are hollow. Fear slips into those hollow places. It is the very emptiness that draws the fear.
Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa
#38. The Bible teaches that there are no lost causes. No permanent pit-dwellers except those who refuse to leave.
Beth Moore
#39. What care I if it be "wild and improbable" and "lacking in literary art"? I refuse to be any longer hampered by such canons of criticism. The one essential thing I demand of a book is that it should interest me. If it does, I forgive it every other fault.
L.M. Montgomery
#40. From this moment forward ... I stop the blame game and excuses. I am responsible for my life and for where I am today. I cannot blame the people and circumstances in my past, and I refuse to hide behind my past mistakes.
Lance Wubbels
#41. Laughter is a gift from God. When we refuse to accept it, it makes Him want to take it back. Like the unicorns.
John Acuff
#42. They [Fairy Tales] are talking about real emotions, telling true stories, through the medium of metaphor. People used to understand metaphor better than I think we do now. But these stories are so potent, they refuse to die.
Jane Yolen
#43. I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna Fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
#44. We would oppose the turning of the planet and refuse the setting of the sun.
Dave Eggers
#45. To forgive someone means to let him off the hook, or to cancel a debt he owes you. When you refuse to forgive someone, you still want something from that person, and even if it is revenge you want, it keeps you tied to him forever.
Henry Cloud
#46. We are all the products and victims of our own upbringing, until we reflect, refuse, and rebel.
Rawi Hage
#47. I still think most writers are just kids who refuse to grow up. We're still playing imaginary games, with our imaginary friends.
Ian Rankin
#48. A key principle of success is to always refuse to let any setback in your life ... defeat you. Keep moving forward!
Timothy Pina
#49. Only a government that does not trust its citizens would refuse them the right to bear arms.
Curt Weldon
#50. There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.
Umberto Eco
#51. The world won't end with a bang.
The world won't end with a whimper.
In fact, the world won't end at all.
But it will change and if we refuse to change with it ...
It will be us that ends.
Madeline Sheehan
#52. Who is't that to woman's beauty would submit,
And yet refuse the fetters of their wit?
Aphra Behn
#53. I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality ... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#54. I refuse to charge for my karate classes, I refuse to charge for Q&A panels, and when people come to my table, if you have money, great, but if you don't, who cares?
Jason David Frank
#55. I refuse to stay a prisoner to my body. I am going to free myself.
Leigh Hershkovich
#56. THE ORDINARY RESPONSE TO ATROCITIES is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter aloud: this is the meaning of the word unspeakable.
Atrocities, however, refuse to be buried.
Judith Lewis Herman
#57. I repeatedly refuse to make any practical decisions. I get a feeling of nausea about practicality.
Francesco Clemente
#58. None of us ask for some things. We don't ask to be born where we were. We don't ask for those things which limit us. We have to do the best we can with what we have where we are. And we can try to change things, but you can't do any of that if you refuse to accept where you are.
L.E. Modesitt Jr.
#59. Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice.
Lillian Hellman
#60. The wheel of the Good Law moves swiftly on. It grinds by night and day. The worthless husks it drives from out the golden grain, the refuse from the flour. The hand of fate guides the wheel; the revolutions mark the beatings of the heart of manifestation.
H. P. Blavatsky
#61. Ignorant, unconscious and dishonourable part of a society want and like kings, dictators, padishahs and all sort of despots; educated, conscious and honourable part of the same society hate and refuse monarchs, tyrants, oppressors and any kind of autocrats!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#62. Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start
Horace
#63. I refuse to believe the people of Texas and all Americans in the world have forgotten us.
P.J. Parker
#64. State and federal laws protect whistle-blowers, those who refuse to do something illegal, and workers who file claims for workers' compensation.
Bill Dedman
#65. Likewise today, some Christians are content to merely exist until they die. They don't want to risk anything, to believe God, to grow or mature. They refuse to believe his Word, and have become hardened in their unbelief. Now they're living just to die.
David Wilkerson
#66. Individuals can refuse to use a given technology, but unless they live in total isolation will have to engage with people whose psyches have been shaped by a multitude of technologies. And there is no escaping the pervasive ecological effects.
Stephanie Mills
#67. I believe if I refuse to grow old, I can stay young 'til I die.
Stephen Schwartz
#68. Isn't it obvious, Sage? No, of course it isn't. I did it so I'd have a reason to be around you - one I knew you couldn't refuse.
Richelle Mead
#69. As a rule they will refuse even to sample a foreign dish, they regard such things as garlic and olive oil with disgust, life is unliveable to them unless they have tea and puddings.
George Orwell
#70. Mind's acres are forever green: Oh, I
Shall keep perpetual summer here; I shall
Refuse to let one startled swallow die,
Or, from the copper beeches, one leaf fall.
Stanley Kunitz
#71. If men are in a state in which they find it hard to be weaned from their own ways and choose rather to serve the pleasures of the flesh than to serve the Lord, and refuse to accept the Gospel life, there is no common ground between me and them.
Saint Basil
#72. I know that the whole point - the only point - is to
find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to
let them go.
Lauren Oliver
#73. If I had the strength, I'd find myself otherwise occupied, but my legs refuse to move. My mouth seems to be working just fine though. If I had gills, I could go down on you.
Olivia Cunning
#74. It is the act of unfocusing your mind and inducing an inner fog to escape the responsibility of judgment - on the unstated premise that a thing will not exist if only you refuse to identify it, that A will not be A so long as you do not pronounce the verdict 'It is.
Ayn Rand
#75. Cats randomly refuse to follow orders to prove they can.
Ilona Andrews
#76. God has put into the heart of man love and the boldness to sue, and into the heart of woman fear and the courage to refuse.
Margaret Of Valois
#77. We keep a special place in our hearts for people who refuse to be impressed by us.
Jean De La Bruyere
#78. I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they
E.B. White
#79. It seems to me it's always the evil we refuse to see that does us the greatest harm.
Robert Baer
#80. In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess.
Tim Peters
#81. Habit will be your champion. When you train the mind to think one way and one way only, when you refuse to allow it to think in another, that will produce great strength in battle.
Steven Pressfield
#82. Being a good parent is not an obligation, it is a choice. Plenty of people fall short in the parent category and quite a few refuse to accept it. You will do a much better job if you understand that taking care of your children is a choice not an obligation.
Gudjon Bergmann
#83. It would be a horrible mistake for black people to say, as some have said, "We don't recognize him ... " If you refuse to deal with him (Bush), the resources at his disposal will be given to others.
Charles E. Blake
#85. Surely when a man is painting a picture he ought not refuse to hear any man's opinion ... Since men are able to form a true judgement as to the works of nature, how much more does it behoove us to admit that they are able to judge our faults.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#86. Sometimes we become what we see. Sometimes we take what we see and make it the model for what we refuse to become.
Sharon Shinn
#87. No one is ahead of his time, it is only that the particular variety of creating his time is the one that his contemporaries who also are creating their own time refuse to accept.
Gertrude Stein
#88. Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink - under any circumstances.
Mark Twain
#89. Stress appears in your life because you have a rigid view of 'This is the way the world should be,' and the Universe pays scant regard to your desires. And you refuse to accept this.
Srikumar Rao
#90. Michelle: I read about him in the news last week. So hot. I refuse to believe anyone that good looking could be evil. Matilda: Eh, Justin Bieber? Michelle: Bieber doesn't count. He's more like a semi-pretty lesbian.
L. H. Cosway
#91. Adopt the attitude I refuse to walk around like an exposed raw nerve. I've made up my mind that I'm going to be upbeat, positive, and I won't believe what other people tell me about myself.
Sherry Argov
#92. People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail. The fear of criticism, in such cases is stronger than the DESIRE for success.
Napoleon Hill
#93. You cannot be a positive influence to the "sinners at the table" if you refuse to dine with them.
Donald L. Hicks
#94. Refuse to criticize, condemn, or complain. Instead, think and talk only about the things you really want.
Brian Tracy
#95. He said you couldn't pretend the terrible things in life didn't happen. You can't clean it up. You keep all the refuse and the scars. It's how you learn. And try to make improvements.
Marisha Pessl
#96. Tyler's lips curved in a smile and Haris understood he couldn't keep a guy like him. Tyler was wild and beautiful, and he'd get bored and want to leave, unless Haris made him an offer he couldn't refuse.
Barbara Elsborg
#97. It's just that I don't believe in living a life in decline. Either one grows, one blooms, or one diminishes. I wasn't able to imagine any way after witnessing the white nights to continue to live while growing. And since I refuse to live and diminish, I wanted to die.
Roman Payne
#98. And now, any of those who refuse, or are unable, to prove they are citizens will receive free insurance paid for by those who are forced to buy insurance because they are citizens.
Ben Stein
#99. Though sands be black and bitter black the sea, Night lie before me and behind me night, And God within far Heaven refuse to light The consolation of the dawn for me,
Between the shadowy burns of Heaven and Hell, It is enough love leaves my soul to dwell With memory.
Madison Cawein
#100. The end
When I die bang on cans
Romp around in leaps and bounds
Let whips crack in the air
Call in clowns and acrobats!
I want my coffin to go on a donkey
Decked out in Andalusian style
You can't refuse anything to a dead man
And I want, by all means, go on a donkey
Mario De Sa-Carneiro
